Wikipedia:Wiki Ed/UC Berkeley/Global Poverty and Practice (Fall 2019)
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- Course name
- Global Poverty and Practice
- Institution
- UC Berkeley
- Instructor
- Clare Talwalker
- Wikipedia Expert
- Shalor (Wiki Ed)
- Subject
- multidisciplinary critical poverty studies
- Course dates
- 2019-08-29 00:00:00 UTC – 2019-12-20 23:59:59 UTC
- Approximate number of student editors
- 20
This is an assignment for a core course of the Global Poverty and Practice (GPP) Minor at UC Berkeley -- the course during which students prepare for their "practice experience" (PE). Each student will contribute to at least two Wikipedia articles – one focused on an aspect of the history/sociology of their PE site (eg. a country such as the U.S., Chile, Kenya, Malaysia ... or it could be a city or region such as Lima, Peru or the San Francisco Bay Area); and the second focused on an aspect of key debates/approaches present in their PE sector (eg. water sanitation, community health, microfinance, worker-cooperatives, collective action, food justice, affordable housing).
Each semester, some GPP 105 students return to Wikipedia articles edited by past GPP students; others find new Wikipedia articles to edit. By steady accretion, UC Berkeley GPP students will bring empirical data and critical analysis/reframing on topics of global poverty and inequality to Wikipedia.
Timeline
Week 1
- Course meetings
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- Tuesday, 3 September 2019 | Thursday, 5 September 2019
- In class - Introduction to the Wikipedia assignment
Welcome to your Wikipedia assignment's course timeline. This page guides you through the steps you'll need to complete for your Wikipedia assignment, with links to training modules and your classmates' work spaces.
Your course has been assigned a Wikipedia Expert. You can reach them through the Get Help button at the top of this page.
Resources:
- Editing Wikipedia, pages 1–5
- Evaluating Wikipedia
Week 2
- Course meetings
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- Tuesday, 10 September 2019 | Thursday, 12 September 2019
- Assignment - Get started on Wikipedia
Create an account and join this course page, using the enrollment link your instructor sent you. (Because of Wikipedia's technical restraints, you may receive a message that you cannot create an account. To resolve this, please try again off campus or the next day.)
- Milestones
This week, everyone should have a Wikipedia account.
Week 3
- Course meetings
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- Tuesday, 17 September 2019 | Thursday, 19 September 2019
Week 4
- Course meetings
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- Tuesday, 24 September 2019 | Thursday, 26 September 2019
Week 5
- Course meetings
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- Tuesday, 1 October 2019 | Thursday, 3 October 2019
Week 6
- Course meetings
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- Tuesday, 8 October 2019 | Thursday, 10 October 2019
Week 7
- Course meetings
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- Tuesday, 15 October 2019 | Thursday, 17 October 2019
Week 8
- Course meetings
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- Tuesday, 22 October 2019 | Thursday, 24 October 2019
Week 9
- Course meetings
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- Tuesday, 29 October 2019 | Thursday, 31 October 2019
- Assignment - Evaluate two Wikipedia articles (one for area, one for sector)
Exercise
- Assignment - Review the rules for health topics
- Assignment - Confirm your final choice of two Wikipedia articles (area + sector)
Exercise
Resource: Editing Wikipedia, page 6
- Assignment - Exercise
- Assignment - Exercise
Finalize your Wikipedia article selection/ Find more scholarly sources
Week 10
- Course meetings
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- Tuesday, 5 November 2019 | Thursday, 7 November 2019
Week 11
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- Tuesday, 12 November 2019 | Thursday, 14 November 2019
Week 12
- Course meetings
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- Tuesday, 19 November 2019 | Thursday, 21 November 2019
- Assignment - Start drafting your contributions
Reach out to your Wikipedia Expert if you have questions using the Get Help button at the top of this page.
Resource: Editing Wikipedia, pages 7–9
- Milestones
Everyone has begun writing their article drafts.
Week 13
- Course meetings
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- Tuesday, 26 November 2019
Week 14
- Course meetings
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- Tuesday, 3 December 2019 | Thursday, 5 December 2019
Week 15
- Course meetings
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- Tuesday, 10 December 2019 | Thursday, 12 December 2019
- Assignment - Peer review two classmates "Drafting" sandbox section
- Milestones
Every student has finished reviewing their assigned articles, making sure that every article has been reviewed.
Week 16
- Course meetings
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- Tuesday, 17 December 2019 | Thursday, 19 December 2019
- Assignment - Respond to your peer review
You probably have some feedback from other students and possibly other Wikipedians. Consider their suggestions, decide whether it makes your work more accurate and complete, and edit your draft to make those changes.
Resources:
- Editing Wikipedia, pages 12 and 14
- Reach out to your Wikipedia Expert if you have any questions.
- Assignment - Begin moving your work to Wikipedia
Now that you've improved your draft based on others' feedback, it's time to move your work live - to the "mainspace."
Resource: Editing Wikipedia, page 13
- Assignment - Continue improving your drafting for two articles
Exercise
Now's the time to revisit your text and refine your work. You may do more research and find missing information; rewrite the lead section to represent all major points; reorganize the text to communicate the information better; or add images and other media.
Week 17
- Assignment - Polish your work
Continue to expand and improve your work, and format your article to match Wikipedia's tone and standards. Remember to contact your Wikipedia Expert at any time if you need further help!
- Assignment - Final article
It's the final week to develop your article.
- Read Editing Wikipedia page 15 to review a final check-list before completing your assignment.
- Don't forget that you can ask for help from your Wikipedia Expert at any time!
- Milestones
Everyone should have finished all of the work they'll do on Wikipedia, and be ready for grading.